Harold Feinstein — À propos — Slash Paris

Described as the ‘photography child prodigy’ by his fellow artists, Harold Feinstein started his career in photography at age 15, and he was 19 when Edward Steichen purchased his work for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), making him the youngest person to be so honored.

Before the age of 30 he had become the youngest member of the Photo League led by Sid Grossman. He was then a solo exhibitor and one of the original inhabitants of New York’s legendary “Jazz Loft” where he met W. Eugene Smith, and started working with him on his famous Pittsburg Project.

Even though Harold Feinstein has been honored on many occasions in the USA, and despite the fact his work has long been part of the most prestigious public and private collections, he is still mostly unknown in Europe.

Representative of the ’New York School of Photography’, his work spans six decades and intimately portrays the iconic American playground as a place of on-going exuberance and vitality.